A5077442053- Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare
- Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
- American Constitutional Law and Politics
- Race, History, and American Society
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Ethics in medical practice
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Cinema and Media Studies
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Latin American and Latino Studies
- Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
- Asian American and Pacific Histories
- Organ Donation and Transplantation
- Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes
- American History and Culture
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Health and Medical Research Impacts
- Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
- Colonialism, slavery, and trade
- Medical Research and Practices
Virginia Commonwealth University
2016-2024
Western Colorado University
1997-2022
Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center
2021
Sheltering Arms Institute
2021
Columbia University
2010-2020
Cal Humanities
2020
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
2020
University of Richmond
2019
University of Virginia
2016
Brookings Institution
2016
This text poses the question why Americans, beginning in 1820s and 1830s, simultaneously confidently constructed prisons, insane asylums, reformatories almshouses to confine treat their deviant dependent population. In his introduction, Rothman examines reasons that this is now one of core concerns European American social history; analyzes many imaginative answers have been proposed; evaluates strengths weaknesses. The volume explores attitudes toward crime, madness, poverty delinquency,...
Conflicts of interest between physicians' commitment to patient care and the desire pharmaceutical companies their representatives sell products pose challenges principles medical professionalism. These conflicts occur when physicians have motives or are in situations for which reasonable observers could conclude that moral requirements physician's roles will be compromised. Although physician groups, manufacturers, federal government instituted self-regulation marketing, research psychology...
In The Oxford History of the Prison, a team distinguished scholars offers vivid account rise and development this critical institution. authors trace persistent tension between desire to punish hope for rehabilitation, recounting institution's evolution from rowdy squalid English jails 1700s, in which prisoners visitors ate drank together; sober stark nineteenth-century penitentiaries, whose inmates were forbidden speak or even see one another; finally big houses current American prison...
Conscience and Convenience was quickly recognized for its masterly depiction interpretation of a major period reform history. This history begins in social context which treatment rehabilitation were emerging as predominant after America's prisons asylums had been broadly acknowledged to be little more than embarrassing failures. The resulting progressive agenda evident: develop new, humane effective strategies the criminal, delinquent, mentally ill. results, Rothman documents, did not turn...
It is claimed that this the first interpretative history of American social welfare, which defined as ". . .those security, service, and health programs, activities, organizations, public private, primary purpose [is] to promote well-being those individuals society [feels need deserve] help."As well supporting improving needy groups, modem welfare system also improves community conditions helps solve problems affecting all members it.This book not, however, a definitive account, but brief...
Conscience and Convenience was quickly recognized for its masterly depiction interpretation of a major period reform history. This history begins in social context which treatment rehabilitation were emerging as predominant after America's prisons asylums had been broadly acknowledged to be little more than embarrassing failures. The resulting progressive agenda evident: develop new, humane effective strategies the criminal, delinquent, mentally ill. results, Rothman documents, did not turn...
Professional medical associations (PMAs) play an essential role in defining and advancing health care standards. Their conferences, continuing education courses, practice guidelines, definitions of ethical norms, public advocacy positions carry great weight with physicians the public. Because many PMAs receive extensive funding from pharmaceutical device companies, it is crucial that their guidelines manage both real perceived conflict interests. Any threat to integrity must be thoroughly...
There is considerable interest in reinvigorating medical professionalism.16 This reflects a profound unease with the seeming primacy of economic factors among those currently affecting practice United States. general agreement that patients' interests must take precedence over physicians' financial self-interest and professionalism also entails service to vulnerable populations civic engagement. But as commentators focus on managed care other issues moment, many considerations are entirely...
TWENTY-ONE years ago, in June 1966, Henry Beecher, Dorr Professor of Research Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, published these pages an analysis "Ethics and Clinical Research" thereby accelerated the movement that brought human experimentation under rigorous federal institutional control.1 Although Beecher was not first to direct attention abuses experimentation, National Institutes Health already formulating stricter rules, his presentation 22 examples investigators who endangered "the...
The idea of establishing a market for organs is now the subject unusual controversy. Proponents emphasize concept autonomy; opponents invoke fairness and justice. controversy, however, has given sparse attention to what it would mean society medicine establish in intended unintended consequences such practice. This article addresses these issues by exploring tensions between 'extrinsic' 'intrinsic' incentives, suggesting that donation might well decline were financial incentives introduced....
The new vaccine against 4 types of human papillomavirus (HPV), Gardasil, like other immunizations appears to be a cost-effective intervention with the potential enhance both adolescent health and quality their adult lives. However, messages methods by which was marketed present important challenges physician practice medical professionalism. By making vaccine's target disease cervical cancer, sexual transmission HPV minimized, threat cancer adolescents maximized, subpopulations most at risk...
Health advocacy organizations (HAOs) are influential stakeholders in health policy. Although their tends to closely correspond with the pharmaceutical industry's marketing aims, financial relationships between HAOs and industry have rarely been analyzed. We used Eli Lilly Company's grant registry examine its grant-giving policies. also examined HAO Web sites determine grant-disclosure patterns. Only 25% of that received grants acknowledged Lilly's contributions on sites, only 10% as a event...
<h3>Importance</h3> Few current data are available regarding the political behavior of American physicians as number female has increased and solo practitioners decreased. <h3>Objective</h3> To analyze campaign contributions that made from 1991 to 1992 through 2011 2012 election cycles Republican Democratic candidates in presidential congressional races partisan organizations, including party committees super action (Super PACs). <h3>Design, Setting, Participants</h3> We explored differences...